About This Item

  • TitleWilliamsburg Savings Bank
  • Call NumberBANK_0252
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of a male, custodian-like, cartoon figure setting the Williamsburg Savings Bank clock, on tower, to Eastern Standard Time from Daylight Savings Time, with a speech bubble above: "Don't Forget! Tonight's the Night!" Figure and bubble are both superimposed on image. Image also includes large street signs (Times Plaza; Flatbush) in right foreground.
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: 1936. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Daylight saving; Cartoon characters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Clock towers -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Street signs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Towers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.